"Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English."
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"Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed."
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"Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum."
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"Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."
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"You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it."
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"When I left university I was sure that I was going to be a painter. Then I had a crisis, a revelation. I saw Dolce Vita and my mind was blown by it, by the synthesis. I realised I wanted to be a filmmaker and started making films. I was writing screenplays and couldn't get money because my work was so uncommercial. I got married and started writing fiction. What was wonderful is that it gave me my freedom because no-one can tell me I can't work. Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines."
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"In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors."
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"I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind."
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"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
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"There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write."
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"One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way."
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"A lot of people have already been impacted by the Life Cube Project and the principles behind it. They write to me and post on social media all the time, about their dreams coming true after writing them down, or how writing down their goals resonated with them."
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"Throughout my life, I have held the strongest belief that if you write down what you want to accomplish in your life: your dreams, goals, hopes and aspirations, you are much more likely to achieve them. I have been writing down my goals since I was a kid, and I've had more success than I could have ever dreamed of... one goal at a time."
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"I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company."
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"Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one."
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"My best writing has always been in journals."
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"No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees."
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"I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print"
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"I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them."
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"Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it."
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